PioMoTorrTo.-' Why.did the goneral· take you on his stnff?" was asked of a young Hussar, by an enthusiast. " Oh, 1'll telll you -because I cut-" "Throu'gh tihe ranks of the enemy, you hero I': interrupted an enthusiast (she was a lady . " Oh, dear no, nothing of the sort; it wad because I cut up a turkey so well." What is tho differono etotwben a man while cuts bE t'-he 'e~d of hi. nose and a L|oo who isa lus?t finished

OUlr MAGI,1TRATEliiAND TIfE SONSJ' OF .TEMPERASOE. (7o tuheEdiator of the ATlners' Ad:ocale.) Stm,rl-i a recnit isaeC of your contenporanry, uinder the hcading"of "'Police Court NCwV," I flud that during a discussion nas to renewing" the license of a public-hoitue at?etilmlambton, 1ri. Hunell is. reported to ihanre said " -l onc knoew two Seons of Tcmperanre w lho were drinking iun mt1 hotel, wllell n 1'orthv I'atrnrich came ia, rnd tlie other mclnbers of the Order immediatelydodged out, onescramblnhig undlcrncal th the nble."' '?Presuming tlhantIMr. Inllmll lhai3 ben corrctd.ly reported, and t hat. the facts stated arc tfue, what coulld his motihe have been in rcfei ring to the circumfall:ce '?nll ? for really it lhadl nothing to dowith the case. Surely, as nmangistrate, and also "I.P. for the county, 'hle has never taken nadvantagec of his position to slander the Sons; yet, whit.olso can I call.it ? I have heard that; there is honour among thieycb. TVYII3; Mr. Editor, if I we~lc a...

COAL FIELDS AMllEDNIMENT BI LL (To the Editor of the Affisera icl dt) . l S.-As you taklo a grat' intzi it oti in'allo?'oir mibing affair.s, perhap, you wotihtl'hlldi m if ',ainall space in your valuablo colniuin'to ,i` "ily 1'ugges io-n asto what ought to be dona in i he prosont case of the Coal Fields Regulation Bill; ithiolh;"I aM informed is labout to come beforo tluo Legislutulo before the close of its piesofit eastionW. ."Voin nill Pea that the Imembers ar w\orn 'ait' mid. tired.of everySthintg, thiough th length of he sesilsion, rind can therefore scarcely be expocted to take inn in" terest in our bill. As it is well-known t hat dli Bitairs arebat innlifferently understorod'by the memr bers of either House, andl, mlorcov~er, ther fact f:rto many of both nmembers and. ministers yhailg in 're.ted in the proprilotory sidet of the qucaetion, makes me, considering the aInteness of the ssesioni, Bdtt he mioodthat thu membiIer.s? tr ini, dreads it (the Bill). Fate; hoirvVer, as it i...

BUJRWOOD. THERe is a certaiii class of individals in this district, who seem eithci to have entirely for gotteln, or never lknlown the conunandruent, ' Ilenlenuber the Sabbath daliy, to keep it holy," if the protfanation of tlhat day, by them is to be any critrion. The manner in which the Sabbath is desecrated is clearly discernible even to a casual observer. Occasionally there is a little of whait, is terned " gafting" carried on, it-was noticed one day, not a'great while back, at a distfIuce of about two huntdred yards from a chapel door, where divine service was bting held a·t the time. Another favo~nrite way ofl' spendiiiLg the Sundaly, with some of them; is by dritiking.. After about nine inl the oIlloling they can be seen making their way by ones and twos, to the public house, there to spend the greater part of their day, in surfeiting tlhemnselves with drink, and using language of the most filthy description, in stead of remanining at homne and showing their children that the...

(To the ZEditor of ther JMiners' .Adrocate) Sin,-From thu contiinual prattle which appears in issue after issue of your paper coneorning Laher's case, and thle proving and disproving of contending parties, we might aliopst conclude that an action was going to take place, of such stupon does social magnitude and importance, that justico could never reach it. Now, would it not hlnvs boon more preferable, .both for your correspond n' a d others, to have left this case in abeyance until it haldrceived tho attention of thi district, as was settled on at the last geoleral mncting ? But sure at that meeting a deal of. acrimonioush language was used, until Longssorth cntored. and made a state ment, which completely exonerated him ifrom .all complicity or blame, na was acknoowledged froum ia 1 Iarts of the imeetinii. Tlhe blame thou attached to the manager, Mr. Swinburn, in that he promised laher hoe uhuld go on the coal. lut whether Ilaher had got a definite answei: that ho migniht start on...

SN IAMILTON. O? .Tuesday evening a deputation of the Bore iole iiii?etl Meossrs. M?orecwether and Win ship for the purpose of arranging, locally, if possible, the prices to bd paid for' deficient •narrow plaees, so'that they miaybe ballotted for among tliose men out of places; instiad'of the presclit system of strangers doing a short lagging. bifore getting a hbllot ini by working in th6so places for .two or three months for a more -.pittance. - Thed meeting was ralher a' btlonly ono, Mr. (erewether contending that it.: was a demand'or ali advance on the'pre senlt a'greement. l'hedeputation, on the other hand, contended that ~tras?sp t,i.?d atidithat those places did not come uild~er the agrcemenit, inasmuch as they were special' places at the time the agreement was entered inito Tbhe conference ended without coming to any satisfactory conclusion, in cnnsequpnce of which.the General Secretary has wl to Mr. Merewivethler sking a conference in accorld alice with .agreement, to be held...